Snake Juice

• Jerse
  March 16th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  They put all sorts of animals in their liquor bottles over there. They think they can drink the animals characteristics or some jazz like that…

• karina
  March 16th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

  it’s their culture and we can’t blame them for it

• Pudifoot
  March 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

  You can by snake wine all over the place in Vietnam.

• Pudifoot
  March 16th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

  supposedly it does wonders for back pain. O.o

• Colin
  March 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  Pudifoot, so does Tequila…

• Carl Huber
  March 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

  It’s incredibly common in those cultures. There’s a video of the foul mouthed TV Chef and one of the Top Gear guys drinking the stuff. I posted it over on my forum; let me see if I can find it.

  Here it is:
  http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPPw5Jd2M

  I’d love to try the stuff just to say I had, but the quality of the liquor is I’m sure absolute crap.

  The REALLY fowl stuff (pun intended) is some nordic or icelandic or inuit cultures (apologies, I don’t remember which) actually put birds into bottles. That’s very dangerous - much higher likelihood of contamination. The other animals aren’t really that big of a deal.

• binky
  March 16th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

  They make snake cachaca in Brazil too.

• RooGrrrl
  March 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  Dude! That’s 3 Snake Wine! An ex-boyfriend of mine found some of that when he was doing a moving job for a Chinese restaurant. The proprietor told him it would make him sexually attractive and so he drank some of it. Maybe it worked, I sure thought he was hot.

• Justin
  March 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  nice picture, and Carl Thanks a lot for the link that was hilarious!

• oakling
  March 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

  I love how we’re not supposed to reuse plastic water bottles because the chemicals will leach into the water, but RATTLESNAKES… that’s just fine.

• Oomi
  March 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  Gaah, that pic made me cringe.

• Pudifoot
  March 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

  oakling: i think you meant to comment on the previous (and very similar) post. XD

• Peter
  March 16th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  They sell this type in China too. I had the opportunity to try snake wine (because how badass does it sound to say you’ve drank snake?) but I had to decline for the rat one.. that was.. wrong to say the elast.

• Christophe
  March 16th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  It’s also a specialty in the French Alps : http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_hibou/108307184/

• Ashe
  March 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

  Oh yea, we were told by the older Vietnamese guy that he has a glass every morning because it makes him stronger, but the rat wine - that’s only for special occasions!

  It is absolutely foul by the way!!

• loremIpsum
  March 17th, 2008 at 1:03 am

  It is correct, that you find snakes in rice wine in about every shop in Viet Nam. The monkeys are harder to find though:
  http://www.plan-b.in/22-February-06.81.0.html

• ELLERY
  March 17th, 2008 at 3:10 am

  Not to burst any bubbles, but that looks like a cobra instead of a rattle snake. I live in Texas, and we are replete with the nasty critters.

• Maddy
  March 17th, 2008 at 10:59 am

  I’ve had this stuff. The first shot made me projectile puke, but the second one wasn’t too bad. By the third or fourth my mouth was numb anyway.

• fluff
  March 17th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  Makes me kind of sad

• fergieferg
  March 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZZXcRFpFAg

  I had some of the stuff, a friend has a neighbor that is from Vietnam, he had a few bottles of it. They poured the shot before I got to see the bottle, it was pretty potent stuff.

• D
  March 18th, 2008 at 11:39 am

  Went back to the motherland and bought some of that stuff but with scorpions instead. Supposedly great for manly type stuff…

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